Katrina Skewes Mcferran
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 104379 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Katrina Skewes Mcferran |
| PRENOMES | Katrina Skewes |
| SOBRENOME | Mcferran |
| ASSINATURA | MCFERRAN K S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0699-3683 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 320 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
‘I Think About Music and How This can Help’ – Exploring Sustained Outcomes From a Music Therapy Informed Teacher Professional Learning Program
This study explores the sustained practices of six classroom teachers after their participation in a novel music therapy informed professional learning program, Music for Classroom Wellbeing. Amid growing concerns about student mental health and teacher attrition, effective strategies to promote classroom wellbeing are urgently needed. The program aimed to enhance teachers’ capacity to foster safe and supportive classroom environments through int…
Music therapists' perceptions of creating safety in the context of trauma with children and adolescents
Music facilitation styles and behaviours across the health-care continuum
These skilled facilitators showed flexibility, always aiming to accommodate participants' needs, and revealing new evidence of a common approach to music facilitation across different types of participant groups
The importance of passionate individuals for navigating school arts provision in 19 Australian schools
Arts programs are increasingly recognized for their role in promoting student development and cohesive school communities. Yet, most Australian schools are left to navigate a landscape characterized by shifting policy goals and external providers of diverse quality and intent. Drawing on interviews with 27 stakeholders from 19 Catholic primary schools in Melbourne, Australia, we explored key approaches to arts provision in this context, and condi…
Exploring the lived experiences of young autistic adults in Nordoff-Robbins music therapy
Introduction Research in music therapy and autistic people to date has predominantly focused on communication and social interaction outcomes. The purpose of this exploration was to explore the lived experiences of young autistic adults in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. To our knowledge, the body of research that seeks to understand participants’ perspectives regarding their experiences of music therapy and the goals they want to pursue is limite…
Reflective Lullaby Writing with two mother-infant dyads who recently experienced an admission to a neonatal intensive care unit
Introduction Having a premature baby is a complex experience for parents, especially where an admission to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after birth is required. Regardless of length of admission, parents likely confront mixed emotions related to their concerns for their baby's physical health and development, which are often still present in the months and years after their baby's discharge. Supporting parents to emotionally process thei…
Professional Pathways for Musicians with Disability in Victoria, Australia
The work of disabled musicians has become the focus on of an increasingly large body of academic work; however, existing literature rarely provides details about the educational experiences of these musicians, or how disability impacted these experiences. This study interviewed eleven performing musicians living with disability in Australia to elucidate the barriers and enablers that they faced in their music educations and careers. We developed …
Perceptions of mental health assessment and resource-oriented music therapy assessment in a child and youth mental health service
Introduction Music therapists are increasingly being employed in multidisciplinary mental health services. Assessment is usually undertaken early in mental health treatment and can significantly influence people’s engagement with therapy. However, little is known about how people perceive mental health assessment and music therapy assessment.Method The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore, through focus groups, young people’s percepti…
Structure, agency and community
Introduction: In the wake of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns in the southern states of Australia, many community music and music therapy projects shifted to an online format. This paper discusses the formation and creation of four online music groups aimed at people with disability, including two groups for children and two for adults. The aim of the study was to explore the use of online technologies to support social inclusion and wellbeing…
Exploring experience through ‘reflexive dialogue’
This paper critically examines the use of ‘reflexive dialogue’ method employed during research into the process of resistance in psychotherapy practice. Recognising how the phenomenon of resistance is contested across therapy fields, our research aim was to understand how we, as humanistically-informed psychotherapists, tend to view and handle it in practice. In our exploration, we embraced an orientation that was relational-centered and reflexiv…
Music is everything
Children experiencing homelessness and family violence sometimes have reduced opportunities to access appropriate educational, social and recreational supports. However, music often remains as a personal resource in children’s everyday lives. This article explores the use of songwriting as a participatory arts-based research method to give voice to young people’s understandings of how they use music in the context of homelessness and family viole…
Musical recovery
Music therapy has previously been identified as a way to foster processes of mental health recovery. However, little is known about the specific factors apparent in group singing which can promote recovery. The current project aimed to address this gap by exploring the conditional and contextual factors involved in group singing which may promote recovery for people with mental illness. Adults who were in mental health recovery were recruited fro…
Promoting young people’s musical identities to facilitate recovery from mental illness
The new ‘youth mental health paradigm’ (IAYMH. 2015. “International Association for Youth Mental Health.” Accessed February 15, http://www.iaymh.org/) promotes the need for youth-friendly mental health options. Music therapy initiatives offer innovative modes of working towards young people’s recovery in ways that align with the ethos of these services (McCaffrey, Edwards, and Fannon. 2011. “Is There a Role for Music Therapy in the Recovery Appro…
The Challenges of Using Self-Report Measures with People with Severe Mental Illness
Integrating Emotions Into the Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Critical interpretive synthesis is a particular form of systematic review that critically examines the decisions made by authors while conducting and publishing about their research and practices. It differs from empirical syntheses of qualitative research by emphasizing the interpreted and constructed nature of this form of secondary analysis. In this article, we extend previous literature on critical interpretive syntheses by highlighting the i…
Contextualising the relationship between music, emotions and the well-being of young people
A convergent parallel design was used to interrogate two sets of literature produced by researchers investigating music, emotions and well-being: the first being 16 quantitative music psychology studies, the second being seven qualitative music therapy studies. A series of critical analyses examined some of the main assumptions that had influenced the design of the studies, largely related to the nomothetic or idiographic approaches adopted by th…
Toward a critical grounded theory
Purpose Research literature presents lively debate about whether research approaches traditionally belonging to distinct paradigms can be combined (Creswell, 2011). While much of this discourse has focussed on mixed methods studies that combine quantitative and qualitative data (Morgan, 2007), there has been less discussion of the implications and benefits of combining different approaches from two “alternative” paradigms. The purpose of this pap…
How fast and how dialogic should review processes of an Open Access music therapy journal be
Authors’ roundtable
Background: Preparing a manuscript for submission and moving through the peer review process can be a challenging task. Authors may benefit from learning about the peer review process and understanding common pitfalls.Objective: Editors from music therapy journals across the globe will facilitate discussion with attendees about the process of peer review and scientific publication, offering cross-journal perspectives and examples from the vantage…
Motivations and skills investments of music therapists
Background: Investigating the motivations and skills invested by music therapists (MTs) in their work is useful and insightful for the continuing professional development.Objective: This study aimed to understand the motivations and skills that MTs in different clinical settings bring to their work to promote well-being in their clients.Methods: Focus group discussions were conducted with MTs who work with three different client groups: children …
Healthy and unhealthy use of music by adolescents
The transition to practice experience of five music therapy graduates
Entering clinical practice is both exciting and challenging. Little is known about new graduates' experience of entering practice. This phenomenological study explored the lived experience of five new music therapy graduates in their transition from student to therapist, within the first six months of practice. Through purposeful criterion sampling, five participants were recruited from a recent graduate cohort of the Master of Music Therapy prog…
Dialogues in musicality
Talking to "the public" about music therapy practice, theory and research
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature Linking Music and Adolescent Mental Health
There is a diverse literature that explores the relationship between youth, music, and mental health, with few attempts at systematic synthesis. This critical interpretive review included 33 studies published between 2000 and 2012 investigating the relationship between music and the mental health of young people, particularly targeting depression. An iterative methodology was used involving several layers of inductive analysis with the intention …
Therapeutic Songwriting in Music Therapy
Original article is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ Copyright Taylor & Francis [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA
Therapeutic songwriting in music therapy, Part II
A growing body of literature on therapeutic songwriting with diverse clinical populations indicates that clinicians employ a wide range of approaches. The purpose of this research was to establish trends in the clinical practice of songwriting as implemented across a range of clinical populations. Responses to a 21-question online survey were obtained from 419 professional music therapists practicing in 29 countries which focused on approaches to…
Music Therapy with Bereaved Teenagers
Qualitative investigations have indicated that music therapy groups may be beneficial for bereaved teenagers. The existing relationship between young people and music serves as a platform for connectedness and emotional expression that is utilised within a therapeutic, support group format. This investigation confirms this suggestion through grounded theory analysis of focus group interviews. Changes in self-perception were not found as a result …
Promoting young people’s musical identities to facilitate recovery from mental illness
The new ‘youth mental health paradigm’ (IAYMH. 2015. “International Association for Youth Mental Health.” Accessed February 15, http://www.iaymh.org/) promotes the need for youth-friendly mental health options. Music therapy initiatives offer innovative modes of working towards young people’s recovery in ways that align with the ethos of these services (McCaffrey, Edwards, and Fannon. 2011. “Is There a Role for Music Therapy in the Recovery Appro…
Musical recovery
Music therapy has previously been identified as a way to foster processes of mental health recovery. However, little is known about the specific factors apparent in group singing which can promote recovery. The current project aimed to address this gap by exploring the conditional and contextual factors involved in group singing which may promote recovery for people with mental illness. Adults who were in mental health recovery were recruited fro…
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature Linking Music and Adolescent Mental Health
There is a diverse literature that explores the relationship between youth, music, and mental health, with few attempts at systematic synthesis. This critical interpretive review included 33 studies published between 2000 and 2012 investigating the relationship between music and the mental health of young people, particularly targeting depression. An iterative methodology was used involving several layers of inductive analysis with the intention …
Music is everything
Children experiencing homelessness and family violence sometimes have reduced opportunities to access appropriate educational, social and recreational supports. However, music often remains as a personal resource in children’s everyday lives. This article explores the use of songwriting as a participatory arts-based research method to give voice to young people’s understandings of how they use music in the context of homelessness and family viole…
Integrating Emotions Into the Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Critical interpretive synthesis is a particular form of systematic review that critically examines the decisions made by authors while conducting and publishing about their research and practices. It differs from empirical syntheses of qualitative research by emphasizing the interpreted and constructed nature of this form of secondary analysis. In this article, we extend previous literature on critical interpretive syntheses by highlighting the i…
Articulating the Dynamics of Music Therapy Group Improvisations
The generation of indigenous music therapy knowledge is reliant on the creation of relevant and adequate tools for investigation of musical phenomena. This article proposes a model of musical analysis that focuses on articulating the dynamics of a therapy group, as heard in their improvised material. Narrative descriptions are generated that can be used as the musical evidence upon which psychological interpretations may be based. The description…
Community Music Therapy and Its Relationship to Community Music
A focus of the emerging discourse on Community Music Therapy (CoMT) has been to discuss its departure from the principles of the 'consensus model' of music therapy. This has helped to define where CoMT begins, but the question of where it ends has been less definitive. The following article addresses this question, drawing on the results of a recent qualitative study that involved a grounded theory analysis of in–depth interviews with Australian …
Toward a critical grounded theory
Purpose Research literature presents lively debate about whether research approaches traditionally belonging to distinct paradigms can be combined (Creswell, 2011). While much of this discourse has focussed on mixed methods studies that combine quantitative and qualitative data (Morgan, 2007), there has been less discussion of the implications and benefits of combining different approaches from two “alternative” paradigms. The purpose of this pap…
We've got a special connection
Young children with autism spectrum disorder face many developmental challenges, most notably in the area of reciprocal social interactions with family and peers. Collaborating with the families of these children in therapy sessions is fast becoming best practice in many countries. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with 11 mothers who participated in family-centred music therapy sessions along with their chi…
Examining the relationship between self-reported mood management and music preferences of Australian teenagers
The influence of music on the moods and behaviour of young people has been much contested. Whilst some parties accuse the music industry of purposefully poisoning the minds of youth, others understand the relationship between teenagers and their music preferences as reciprocal. This article reports on an investigation examining what 111 Australian adolescents reported about changes in their mood before and after listening to self-selected genres …
Women performing music in prison
To date, discourse on the use of performance in music therapy has mostly focused on the potential risks and benefits to the health of music therapy participants. This article focuses instead on the resources that can come into play when music therapy participants perform publically, drawing upon findings from a qualitative case study of seven women who created and performed a musical in a maximum-security prison in Australia. In-depth interviews …
Exploring the lived experiences of young autistic adults in Nordoff-Robbins music therapy
Introduction Research in music therapy and autistic people to date has predominantly focused on communication and social interaction outcomes. The purpose of this exploration was to explore the lived experiences of young autistic adults in Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy. To our knowledge, the body of research that seeks to understand participants’ perspectives regarding their experiences of music therapy and the goals they want to pursue is limite…
The transition to practice experience of five music therapy graduates
Entering clinical practice is both exciting and challenging. Little is known about new graduates' experience of entering practice. This phenomenological study explored the lived experience of five new music therapy graduates in their transition from student to therapist, within the first six months of practice. Through purposeful criterion sampling, five participants were recruited from a recent graduate cohort of the Master of Music Therapy prog…
Structure, agency and community
Introduction: In the wake of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns in the southern states of Australia, many community music and music therapy projects shifted to an online format. This paper discusses the formation and creation of four online music groups aimed at people with disability, including two groups for children and two for adults. The aim of the study was to explore the use of online technologies to support social inclusion and wellbeing…
Applying Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to Video Data in Music Therapy
The current study presents a distinct video microanalysis method, which was guided by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and developed specifically for this music therapy research project. Music therapy studies that have applied video analysis or phenomenology are reviewed, and basic theoretical principals of IPA are discussed. Rationale for developing Interpretative Phenomenological Video Analysis (IPVA) is provided and the six stage…
Music therapists' perceptions of creating safety in the context of trauma with children and adolescents
Reflective Lullaby Writing with two mother-infant dyads who recently experienced an admission to a neonatal intensive care unit
Introduction Having a premature baby is a complex experience for parents, especially where an admission to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) after birth is required. Regardless of length of admission, parents likely confront mixed emotions related to their concerns for their baby's physical health and development, which are often still present in the months and years after their baby's discharge. Supporting parents to emotionally process thei…
Perceptions of mental health assessment and resource-oriented music therapy assessment in a child and youth mental health service
Introduction Music therapists are increasingly being employed in multidisciplinary mental health services. Assessment is usually undertaken early in mental health treatment and can significantly influence people’s engagement with therapy. However, little is known about how people perceive mental health assessment and music therapy assessment.Method The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore, through focus groups, young people’s percepti…
The Challenges of Using Self-Report Measures with People with Severe Mental Illness
Articulating the Dynamics of Music Therapy Group Improvisations
The generation of indigenous music therapy knowledge is reliant on the creation of relevant and adequate tools for investigation of musical phenomena. This article proposes a model of musical analysis that focuses on articulating the dynamics of a therapy group, as heard in their improvised material. Narrative descriptions are generated that can be used as the musical evidence upon which psychological interpretations may be based. The description…
Community Music Therapy and Its Relationship to Community Music
A focus of the emerging discourse on Community Music Therapy (CoMT) has been to discuss its departure from the principles of the 'consensus model' of music therapy. This has helped to define where CoMT begins, but the question of where it ends has been less definitive. The following article addresses this question, drawing on the results of a recent qualitative study that involved a grounded theory analysis of in–depth interviews with Australian …
Therapeutic Songwriting in Music Therapy
Original article is available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/ Copyright Taylor & Francis [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA
Therapeutic songwriting in music therapy, Part II
A growing body of literature on therapeutic songwriting with diverse clinical populations indicates that clinicians employ a wide range of approaches. The purpose of this research was to establish trends in the clinical practice of songwriting as implemented across a range of clinical populations. Responses to a 21-question online survey were obtained from 419 professional music therapists practicing in 29 countries which focused on approaches to…
Music Therapy with Bereaved Teenagers
Qualitative investigations have indicated that music therapy groups may be beneficial for bereaved teenagers. The existing relationship between young people and music serves as a platform for connectedness and emotional expression that is utilised within a therapeutic, support group format. This investigation confirms this suggestion through grounded theory analysis of focus group interviews. Changes in self-perception were not found as a result …
Music therapists' use of interviews to evaluate group programmes with young people
Music programmes facilitated by music therapists are becoming more popular for vulnerable young people in mainstream and alternative school settings, however evaluation strategies have been sparsely documented within the music therapy literature. This article contributes eight interview topics for use in evaluating music programmes with adolescents. A rationale is provided for the need for such a tool with particular reference to the challenges o…
Metal made me who I am
The relationship between adolescent mental health and their habits of music listening with regard to metal music has been consistently explored in academic research since the rise in popularity of heavy metal in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Correlational studies have been most prominent, but do not tend to explore this relationship in the depth required to garner a detailed understanding of the nature of this music engagement. The aim of this …
Community music therapy in schools
The nature of schooling in first world western countries has changed significantly in the past decade. The philosophy of inclusion has been embraced internationally and has led to school communities comprising of staff and students who have considerably diverse backgrounds and abilities. Pedagogical emphases are therefore slowly shifting from teaching universalized curricula to developing universal designs that can take account of the individual …
Applying Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to Video Data in Music Therapy
The current study presents a distinct video microanalysis method, which was guided by Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) and developed specifically for this music therapy research project. Music therapy studies that have applied video analysis or phenomenology are reviewed, and basic theoretical principals of IPA are discussed. Rationale for developing Interpretative Phenomenological Video Analysis (IPVA) is provided and the six stage…
We've got a special connection
Young children with autism spectrum disorder face many developmental challenges, most notably in the area of reciprocal social interactions with family and peers. Collaborating with the families of these children in therapy sessions is fast becoming best practice in many countries. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews with 11 mothers who participated in family-centred music therapy sessions along with their chi…
Examining the relationship between self-reported mood management and music preferences of Australian teenagers
The influence of music on the moods and behaviour of young people has been much contested. Whilst some parties accuse the music industry of purposefully poisoning the minds of youth, others understand the relationship between teenagers and their music preferences as reciprocal. This article reports on an investigation examining what 111 Australian adolescents reported about changes in their mood before and after listening to self-selected genres …
Women performing music in prison
To date, discourse on the use of performance in music therapy has mostly focused on the potential risks and benefits to the health of music therapy participants. This article focuses instead on the resources that can come into play when music therapy participants perform publically, drawing upon findings from a qualitative case study of seven women who created and performed a musical in a maximum-security prison in Australia. In-depth interviews …
Contextualising the relationship between music, emotions and the well-being of young people
A convergent parallel design was used to interrogate two sets of literature produced by researchers investigating music, emotions and well-being: the first being 16 quantitative music psychology studies, the second being seven qualitative music therapy studies. A series of critical analyses examined some of the main assumptions that had influenced the design of the studies, largely related to the nomothetic or idiographic approaches adopted by th…
Toward a critical grounded theory
Purpose Research literature presents lively debate about whether research approaches traditionally belonging to distinct paradigms can be combined (Creswell, 2011). While much of this discourse has focussed on mixed methods studies that combine quantitative and qualitative data (Morgan, 2007), there has been less discussion of the implications and benefits of combining different approaches from two “alternative” paradigms. The purpose of this pap…
How fast and how dialogic should review processes of an Open Access music therapy journal be
Authors’ roundtable
Background: Preparing a manuscript for submission and moving through the peer review process can be a challenging task. Authors may benefit from learning about the peer review process and understanding common pitfalls.Objective: Editors from music therapy journals across the globe will facilitate discussion with attendees about the process of peer review and scientific publication, offering cross-journal perspectives and examples from the vantage…
Motivations and skills investments of music therapists
Background: Investigating the motivations and skills invested by music therapists (MTs) in their work is useful and insightful for the continuing professional development.Objective: This study aimed to understand the motivations and skills that MTs in different clinical settings bring to their work to promote well-being in their clients.Methods: Focus group discussions were conducted with MTs who work with three different client groups: children …
Healthy and unhealthy use of music by adolescents
The transition to practice experience of five music therapy graduates
Entering clinical practice is both exciting and challenging. Little is known about new graduates' experience of entering practice. This phenomenological study explored the lived experience of five new music therapy graduates in their transition from student to therapist, within the first six months of practice. Through purposeful criterion sampling, five participants were recruited from a recent graduate cohort of the Master of Music Therapy prog…
Dialogues in musicality
Talking to "the public" about music therapy practice, theory and research
A Critical Interpretive Synthesis of the Literature Linking Music and Adolescent Mental Health
There is a diverse literature that explores the relationship between youth, music, and mental health, with few attempts at systematic synthesis. This critical interpretive review included 33 studies published between 2000 and 2012 investigating the relationship between music and the mental health of young people, particularly targeting depression. An iterative methodology was used involving several layers of inductive analysis with the intention …
Promoting young people’s musical identities to facilitate recovery from mental illness
The new ‘youth mental health paradigm’ (IAYMH. 2015. “International Association for Youth Mental Health.” Accessed February 15, http://www.iaymh.org/) promotes the need for youth-friendly mental health options. Music therapy initiatives offer innovative modes of working towards young people’s recovery in ways that align with the ethos of these services (McCaffrey, Edwards, and Fannon. 2011. “Is There a Role for Music Therapy in the Recovery Appro…
The Challenges of Using Self-Report Measures with People with Severe Mental Illness
Integrating Emotions Into the Critical Interpretive Synthesis
Critical interpretive synthesis is a particular form of systematic review that critically examines the decisions made by authors while conducting and publishing about their research and practices. It differs from empirical syntheses of qualitative research by emphasizing the interpreted and constructed nature of this form of secondary analysis. In this article, we extend previous literature on critical interpretive syntheses by highlighting the i…
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